Sponsoring Western Protection Relay Conference

The Western Protective Relay Conference (WPRC) is an educational forum for the presentation and discussion of broad and detailed technical aspects of protective relaying and related subjects. Approximately 550 attend, mostly from the western United States. This forum allows participants to learn and apply advanced technologies that prevent electrical power failures. Speakers are invited to present papers selected by a group of protective relaying experts.

• The conference started 34 years ago by several EE faculty led by Cliff Mosher.
• Last year 576 people and 45 vendors (exhibitors) attended the conference.
• The attendees came from 62 power utility and manufacturing companies from 28 countries (78% from U.S. and 22% international).
• The steering committee consists of 20 members with representation by the majority of the power manufacturing and utility companies such as SEL, Avista, BPA, etc.

Sponsoring Hands-on Relay School

• This spring represents 25 years of the school
• In recent years we have had as many as 200 people at the school (from power utilities, manufacturers, and universities)
• Last year there were 55 contributing organizations
• The executive committee is a representative of the larger utilities
• here in the northwest (BPA, Avista, Idaho Power, Seattle City Light, to name a few)